National Unity Party of Burma

The National Unity Party (NUP) is a socialist political party in Burma that was founded on 24 September 1988. The party was founded as a proxy party of the military (the Tatmadaw) and the formerly ruling Burma Socialist Programme Party to contest the 1990 general election, which the party lost to the National League for Democracy; the military voided the results and ensured that the NUP would be the governing party. The party maintained close ties to the ruling military junta until the 2011-2012 political reforms, and the party soon became a minor party as its candidates lost the vast majority of its elections.